Sentence examples for being snatched away from inspiring English sources

Now, before he can publish, he sees the glory being snatched away.

Over the noughties, tax credits were increasingly used to top up inadequate wages, but these are now being snatched away.

Dufner, 34, was left to swallow his disappointment, his chance at the first victory of his 10-year career coming at a major and being snatched away.

There are few more refined forms of torture for any snooker player than to endure the mounting possibility of a reasonably assumed triumph being snatched away.

They are used as a way to fight off scalpers and get a great seat to a fan at a reasonable price, without those tickets being snatched away from fans and resold to them at multiple times the face value.

It was, rather, a strategy, a desperate attempt — unconscious and almost automatic — to provide a sort of continuity, a narrative continuity, when memory, and thus experience, was being snatched away every instant.

Yes - but then the book was snatched away.

The fancy is snatched away even as it takes flight.

Primo Levi described winter in Auschwitz, when an icicle he'd broken off was snatched away.

"Energy just poured from my body, to be snatched away and dissipated by the wind.

"We'd been within sight of survival, and then it was snatched away from us.